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Mister Bergoglio’s Neighborhood

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Francis greets his Pentecostal “brother bishop” and gives away the store. by Rev. Anthony Cekada For thirty-five years Mister Roger’s Neighborhood, a TV show presided over by a likable and low-key Calvinist minister named Fred Rogers, taught American children the advantages of cooperation and generic “niceness,” and did so utterly without reference to any religious dogma, […]

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A Milestone for Restoring the Traditional Liturgy

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The pre-1955 altar Missal is being reprinted at last! by Rev. Anthony Cekada OVER THE PAST twenty years or so, Catholics who criticize the post-Vatican II reform of the Mass have become increasingly aware that the new rite did not appear out of nowhere, and that quite few of its features appeared as trial balloons in […]

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Christmas Mission to Nigeria

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

** FR. CEKADA ON THE NEW MASS :  7:00 PM TONIGHT Restoration Radio** A newly ordained priest brings the Mass back to his countrymen. NOTE FROM FR. CEKADA: Today we present a little report from Fr. Bede Nkamuke, a Nigerian who was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Daniel Dolan on November 6, 2013. Fr. […]

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Gaga on Islam

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Bergoglio Draws a Jesuit’s Fire for Whitewashing the Koran By Rev. Anthony Cekada   BEFORE VATICAN II, the absolute last thing you’d expect to find a Jesuit doing was publicly attacking a papal pronouncement. The Jesuits, whatever their other considerable shortcomings, were regarded as fiercely loyal defenders of the papacy, the “shock troops of the […]

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More Organ Music from St. Gertrude’s

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

A French toccata that makes the organist’s fingers fly by Rev. Anthony Cekada ON THIS DAY after Christmas, we take a break from our usual theological commentary and offer you a little present in the form of some more church music. Readers will recall that my post last month on the subject, Organ Music and […]

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Papa Gaga’s “Pastoral” Code

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The modernist trick of undermining faith through “experience” by Rev. Anthony Cekada “WHEN I HEAR the word, ‘culture,’ I reach for my revolver.” The idea behind the pithy saying, usually attributed to Nazi Hermann Goering, is that a soothing term often hides a poisonous agenda. So it is with the term “pastoral” used in the […]

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Fellay Serves Up the Chicken Waffles

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Bergoglio a Modernist? Uh, didn’t mean it… by Rev. Anthony Cekada SINCE THE DEATH of SSPX founder Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, one of the popular pastimes in certain traditionalist circles when faced with the latest Novus Ordo outrage is the game of WWLD — What Would Lefebvre Do? So during the whole opera of the SSPX-Vatican […]

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SSPX Bishops on Bishops and “Bishops”

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Williamson on Dolan, Tissier on “Neo” Bishops, Fellay on Both by Rev. Anthony Cekada OVER THE past few weeks, the topic of episcopal consecrations has come up several times. Bergoglio (“Pope Francis”) consecrated two bishops using the post-Vatican II rite; Bishop Daniel L. Dolan celebrates the twentieth anniversary of his episcopal consecration in the traditional […]

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Bergoglio’s Revolution: Six Key Points

Thursday, November 21, 2013

by Rev. Anthony Cekada IMMEDIATELY upon his election by the March 2013, Jorge Bergoglio (“Pope Francis”) started signaling his intention to push the Vatican II revolution forward at warp speed. Where John Paul II and Benedict XVI were content to “make haste slowly” and generally willing to follow certain conventions in order to give the […]

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Sedevacantism: A Quick Primer

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Links to essential reading, updated November 2019 by Rev. Anthony Cekada SINCE THE ELECTION of Jorge Bergoglio (“Pope Francis”) by the March 2013 conclave, more and more Catholics have started to wonder whether the sedevacantist explanation for the state of affairs in the post-Vatican II church might not indeed be the correct one. After all, […]

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